LOS ANGELES — On an outdoor court, in the neighborhood of Watts, a group of boys and girls circled JuJu Watkins, anxiously awaiting a chance to take a picture with their hometown hero. Countless children swarmed the University of Southern California women’s basketball phenom, prompting a towering security guard to abruptly end the photo opportunity....
South Carolina forward Joyce Edwards paused as she contemplated the question at hand: What was the last thing you learned about yourself as a person or player? Edwards repeated the question to herself before steadying for an answer. “Probably that I’m not there yet,” she said. “I feel like every time I think that I’m...
This easy mango basil salsa is a sweet-and-spicy crowd-pleaser, perfect for parties or for snacking at home. You only need 5 ingredients and a few minutes to make it! I grow my own basil—three different varieties, in fact!—so it goes without saying that I am always looking for new ways to use it. Somehow, I’ve never thought...
The NBA offered small fines to the Indiana Pacers and Utah Jazz for recent “roster management” controversies. The NBA finally let two of its squads know it can’t bank on the tank. The Association announced that the Indiana Pacers and Utah Jazz had been fined six figures each for issues “related to the management of...
College softball season is underway, and players are starting to help their respective Power 4 programs make a case for why they’re the top teams to watch. Texas Tech, the 2025 Women’s College World Series runner-up, welcomed the No. 1-ranked transfer class in the offseason. With its reloaded roster, Texas Tech began the season tied...
(Black PR Wire) RICHMOND, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Dominion Energy and the Library of Virginia are pleased to announce the 2026 Strong Men & Women in Virginia History honorees and Student Creative Expressions Contest finalists. This annual program …
(Black PR Wire) LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)– ESSENCE proudly announces Chase Infiniti, Kerry Washington, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Zinzi Coogler, alongside a Luminary Spotlight moment honoring the women of ‘SINN…
Anthropic and OpenAI now have their own well-funded political groups that will square off in the midterm elections over artificial intelligence safety and regulation.
On Thursday, OpenAI released its first production AI model to run on non-Nvidia hardware, deploying the new GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark coding model on chips from Cerebras. The model delivers code at more than 1,000 tokens (chunks of data) per second, which is reported to be roughly 15 times faster than its predecessor. To compare, Anthropic’s Claude Opus...